A common pitfall in intervention research is for intervention agents who offer intervention to control group members and contaminate the research design. What is one common cause and contributor to this pitfall?
A) Low salience of problem
B) Misgivings about the intervention or about research more generally
C) Inadequate incentive to cooperate in the research design
D) Inability to forget intervention protocols when caring for nonintervention patients
D
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